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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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